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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Security: Compliance and Threat of Data Breaches Drive Increased Encryption

By Dick Weisinger

Recent hacker exploits at companies and government organizations like Lockheed Martin, Sony PlayStation, GMail and the Canadian Government lead one to the conclusion that once a computer system is attached to a network,  it really can’t be 100% safe. The Ponemon

Records Management: We Could Do Better!

By Dick Weisinger

It makes sense that businesses which run efficiently have the best shot at success.  90 percent of companies agree with that, based on a survey by Iron Mountain Incorporated.  Those companies said that being efficient is a mission-critical requirement for

SaaS and Cloud Computing: CIO's Increasingly Marginalized

By Dick Weisinger

We reported recently that increasingly CFO’s are calling the shots for how IT budgets will be spent.  Parallel to that trend is the fact that more CIO’s are reporting directly to the CFO.  Now Liz Herbert, principal analyst at Forrester Research,

Information Overload: The Data Management Challenge

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are increasingly finding data management to be one of their major pain points.  InfoRiskAwareness, a consortium of companies primarily based in the UK and involved with the problems of data and information management (Open Text and Recommind being two

Collaboration: Little Value Unless it can Address Solving a Business Problem

By Dick Weisinger

Too much emphasis on the technology  and not enough on how to solve business problems is often the reason why a technology will fail.  Gartner says that’s exactly what’s been happening with Collaboration technologies.  Carol Rozwell, vice President at Gartner